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volume requiring much greater research, hid remuneration was 

 increased to £50 a number : and the total so charged by him 

 amounted to more than £1800 during a period of 21 years. The 

 sale of the four volumes was profitable throughout. The fifth, the 

 most elaborate, barely paid its own expenses. The final balance- 

 sheet after sale of stock, copper-plates, &c., showed a net general 

 profit of about £9800 (from 1805 to 1826), the author's share of 

 which was about £3266.^ 



In 1814 he commenced his magnificent work the " Cathedral 

 Antiquities of England," the Cathedral of his native county being 

 the first. The whole was finished in 1835, containing in fourteen 

 volumes, folio and quarto, with 311 engravings, an elaborate illus- 

 tration of these noble English Edifices. The author was allowed 

 £50 a number, but the work proving unprofitable, he reduced it to 

 £30.'^ The production of these truly valuable volumes was carried 

 on throughout under his immediate superintendence, many of the 

 artists working in his own house and being trained to their task 

 by himself. No one who has not been practically concerned in the 

 preparation of an illustrated book for the press, can form any just 

 idea of the immense amount, not only of capital, but of time, labour 

 and mental anxiety which these must have required. 



He continued the course of persevering and laborious authorship 

 now specially his own, — that of architectural and topographical 

 description and antiquities. To dwell on these in detail would 

 occujiy too much space. A list of his works is therefore appended, 

 taken from the second volume of his "Autobiography."^ His 



' A fine large paper copy of the ^^Architectural Antiquities" with choice 

 proof impressions of the plates, and the whole of the original drawings, making 

 eight volumes, was prepared for the late John iJroadley, Esq., who paid Mr. 

 Hritton £500 for the set. This copy was subsequently bought at an auction by 

 the late Joseph Neeld, Esq., and is now in the Library at Grittlcton House. 



2 On many costly publications in which he was concerned, considerable loss 

 wa» sustained. Of such works the purchasers arc comparatively few, whilst the 

 exiienscH are enormous. The Drawings supplied for the " Cathedral Antiquities" 

 wjst on an average about seven guineas each : whilst to the engraver, Mr. Lo 

 KeuA, was frcqutiitly paid thirty to forty pounds for a single plate: in one 

 instance (IJishop Hronscombe's monument in Exeter Cathedral) JJOli lOs. 



•'♦ Tiio greater part of this volume was prepared by his friend and assistant, 

 Mr. T. E. J OUCH. 



